A Life Worth Breathing: A Yoga Master's Handbook of Strength, Grace, and Healing
10 best books like A Life Worth Breathing: A Yoga Master's Handbook of Strength, Grace, and Healing (Max Strom): Living Your Yoga: Finding the Spiritual in Everyday Life, Yoga for Depression: A Compassionate Guide to Relieve Suffering Through Yoga, Yoga for Emotional Balance: Simple Practices to Help Relieve Anxiety and Depression, Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude, The Wisdom of Yoga: A Seeker's Guide to Extraordinary Living, Myths of the Asanas: The Stories at the Heart of the Yoga Tradition, Teaching Yoga: Exploring the Teacher-Student Relationship, Yin Yoga: Outline of a Quiet Practice, Hip Tranquil Chick: A Guide to Life On and Off the Yoga Mat, Warrior Pose: How Yoga (Literally) Saved My Life
| Author | Judith Hanson Lasater |
| ISBN | 0962713880 |
If you think that you have to escape to a cave in the Himalayas to find the enlightenment that yoga promises, think again. In Living Your Yoga, Judith Lasater stretches the meaning of yoga beyond its familiar poses and breathing techniques to include the events of daily life—all of them—as practice....
| Author | Amy Weintraub |
| ISBN | 0767914503 |
Take the natural path to mental wellness
More than 25 million Americans are treated with antidepressants each year, at a cost in excess of $50 billion. But the side effects of popular prescription drugs may seem nearly as depressing as the symptoms they’re meant to treat. Veteran yoga instructor...
| Author | Bo Forbes |
| ISBN | 1590307607 |
Emotional balance is within your reach—when you cultivate the intelligence of both your body and mind. Bo Forbes, a psychologist and yoga teacher, presents an integrative approach to healing anxiety, depression, and chronic stress. In this book, she offers some of her most important teachings...
| Author | Neal Pollack |
| ISBN | 0061727695 |
Neal Pollack calls himself a comic writer. Which sounds better than "fitfully amusing lightweight writer," although that's probably closer to the truth. There are hardly any chuckles here, and even few smiles, given the subject and its potential (whether you practice yoga or not, there IS something...
| Author | Stephen Cope |
| ISBN | 0553801112 |
For modern spiritual seekers and yoga students alike, here is an irreverent yet profound guide to the most sophisticated teachings of the yoga wisdom tradition–now brought to contemporary life by a celebrated author, psychotherapist, and leading American yoga instructor.
While many...
| Author | Alanna Kaivalya |
| ISBN | 1601090579 |
Practitioners around the world reap the physical benefits of yoga, assuming poses and frequently calling them by their Sanskrit names. While many know that hanumanasana is named for the deity Hanuman, few understand why this is the case. Behind each asana and its corresponding movements is an ancient...
| Author | Donna Farhi |
| ISBN | 1930485174 |
Drawing on decades of experience training yoga teachers and cowriting the California Yoga Teachers Association (CYTA) code of ethics, Donna Farhi offers the first book to set professional standards for teaching yoga. Teaching Yoga explores with depth and compassion a variety of topics both practical...
| Author | Paul Grilley |
| ISBN | 1883991439 |
Yin Yoga: Outline of a Quiet Practice brings together in a fresh way the ancient wisdom of acupuncture and Taoism with Hindu yoga practices. The Yin aspect of Yoga (using postures that stretch connective tissue) is virtually unknown but vital for a balanced approach to physical and mental health. Paul...
| Author | Kimberly Wilson |
| ISBN | 1930722710 |
Hip Tranquil Chick addresses that huge but unacknowledged demographic of fashionistas equally at home at Bergdorf’s and the yoga studio. The book is divided into two major sections that cover all bases for the style-minded seeker. "On the Mat" shares seven must-have modern-girl yoga sequences,...
| Author | Brad Willis |
| ISBN | 1937856690 |
From the front lines of the Gulf War to investigating Columbian drug lords to living with freedom fighters in the mountains of Afghanistan, war correspondent Brad Willis was accustomed to risk. But when mortal danger came, it was from an unexpected direction.
At the pinnacle of his career,...
The Great Oom: The Improbable Birth of Yoga in America
The amazing story of how yoga came to America-and the charming rogue who made it possible
In Jazz Age New York, there was no place hotter than the Clarkstown Country Club, where celebrities such as Leopold Stokowski mingled with Vanderbilts, Goodriches, and Great War spies. They came for the...
21st Century Yoga: Culture, Politics, and Practice
| Author | Carol Horton |
| ISBN | 0615617603 |
Yoga may be rooted in ancient India, but it’s morphed into something new in North America today.
Precisely what that might be, however, is difficult to say. Yoga is taught everywhere from spas to prisons, and foreverything from weight loss to spiritual transcendence. With its chameleon-like...
| Author | Michael Roach |
| ISBN | 0976546906 |
Really wanted to like this book. Yoga teachers who I respect highly recommended it. I don't object to the content but rather to the vehicle--a dramatic tale ostensibly set in an ancient Indian kingdom.
First, I have a low tolerance for historical inaccuracy in fiction. Details of language,...
| Author | Ganga White |
| ISBN | 1556436467 |
Yoga Beyond Belief offers a unique vision of contemporary yoga. It integrates scientific and practical approaches providing a much-needed integrative perspective that complements existing yoga books for all levels and styles of yoga students. Serving up a collection of valuable insights gleaned...
| Author | Vanda Scaravelli |
| ISBN | 0062507923 |
Awakening the Spine is sort of an odd book. It looks like an easy read, there are a lot of pictures, but there are some points she makes about yoga and our bodies that I've never read about before. The most fascinating to me is the significance she places on the lower back, a point where the body extends upwards...
| Author | T.K.V. Desikachar |
| ISBN | 0893819417 |
My father's teaching... was based on the truth that each student must be taught according to his or her individual capacity at any given time. And each step is to be experienced for what the "Bhagavad-Gita" shows it to be: an episode in the greatest of all adventures, the eternal journey of the soul. --T....
| Author | Eknath Easwaran |
| ISBN | 0915132176 |
The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living is Easwaran's verse-by-verse commentary on the Bhagavad Gita.
Easwaran's translation of the Bhagavad Gita is the best-selling English edition in the US. In this verse-by-verse commentary, Easwaran brings the Gita's teachings into our own lives. Full...
Here is a personal tribute to “the father of modern yoga” Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888–1989), written by one of his longtime disciples. Krishnamacharya was a renowned Indian yoga master, Ayurvedic healer, and scholar who modernized yoga practice and whose students—including...
Yinsights: A Journey Into the Philosophy & Practice of Yin Yoga
Contributor(s): Clark, Bernie (Author), Powers, Sarah (Foreword by) The author explores the benefits of yoga as viewed by the Eastern and Western Worlds and related how it affects the body and mind. YinSights is divided into...
| Author | Chip Hartranft |
| ISBN | 1590300238 |
In just 196 short aphorisms, this classic work of Indian philosophy spells out succinctly how the mind works, and how it is possible to use the mind to attain liberation. Compiled in the second or third century CE, the Yoga-Sutra is a road map of human consciousness—and a particularly helpful guide...
| Author | Swami Satyananda Saraswati |
| ISBN | 8185787123 |
Yoga Nidra is a simple yet profound technique adapted by Swami Satyananda Saraswati from the traditional tantric practice of nyasa.The Text explains the theory of Yoga Nidra in both yogic and scientific terms and includes class transcriptions of the practice.It also presents the various applications...
| Author | Gary Kraftsow |
| ISBN | 0140195696 |
Mainstream America is finally catching on to what Eastern countries have known for thousands of years--that yoga is not only a great, low-impact way to increase flexibility and reduce stress, it is also useful in healing any number of afflictions, from common aches and pains to chronic diseases and...
| Author | Erich Schiffmann |
| ISBN | 0671534807 |
Although I learned more from Schiffmann's DVD with Ali MacGraw which I practiced with for the longest time during the long Vermont winters several years ago, I also bought this book which was very helpful, because the explanations and reasons behind the poses was described in great detail. My favorite...
| Author | Sharon Gannon |
| ISBN | 0345442083 |
The long-awaited,
complete guide to the popular, vigorous American method of yoga that is deeply rooted in ancient wisdom and scriptures
“In this day and age of health and fitness trends, it is assuring to know that Sharon and David encourage their students to draw inspiration from...
| Author | Michael Stone |
| ISBN | 1590307054 |
Every aspect of our life has a part to play in the greater ecological system, Michael Stone explains in this book. How do we bring this large view to our yoga practice? According to Stone, our responsibility as human beings is to live in a sustainable and respectful way. He says two things need to change....
